Question: We constantly say that we must choose the best environment, one that gives us an awareness of the importance of spirituality. But if there are people in the group who come only once a week, what should we do with them? Should we support them? After all, don’t they weaken the group?

Answer: In the group there are people who come every day and give one hundred percent of themselves, and I see this. Naturally, I want to unite specifically with them. But there are also people who make less effort and come only once a week. Should I unite with them? What can I receive from them? Only weakness! Soon I myself will start coming once a week and become like them. Is that so?

What I receive from the friends, from the environment, from this world, and from the Creator depends on my attitude toward them, not on what they themselves are. Suppose I look at a friend who comes once a week, yet I value him for it, because this is what the Creator gives him. After all, he still comes; he has the readiness and the desire to be with us.

And if I value the little that exists in him (though perhaps it is not so little!), if I value everything positive in him and understand that this quality is the result of the Creator’s influence upon him, then I am regarding the part of the Creator that is within him, and I magnify that part.

This may be true even with respect to the weakest friend or a complete newcomer from whom I can still receive an impression. In other words, everything depends not on the person himself, but on my ability to make a correct assessment.

Nevertheless, everything begins with the fact that we see people who are making efforts, and then we naturally attach ourselves specifically to them and want to be closer to them. After all, this is much easier, clearer, and more reliable.

But this depends on the size of my Kli, not on the true greatness of the friend himself. If there is even the slightest spark of the Creator within the friend, if the Creator wishes to bring him closer and acts upon him, that is enough for me to receive an impression and inspiration from him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

Question: It is said that the preparatory period is a time of awakening from above. What does this mean?

Answer: During the preparatoration period, a person works on the basis of a desire received from the Creator.

We must process this aspiration that is embedded within us so that in the end it will transform into a desire called Lo Lishma through which one eventually arrives at Lishma.

Naturally, we work, act, and receive impressions due to an awakening from above. But gradually we must transform it into an awakening from below. This is our work.

For it is said: “If the male (the Creator) conceives first, a female (Nekeva) is born” (Nekeva, woman, Hisaron). That is, the Creator first awakens us from above. And then we must bring this female (Nekeva) to grow and become capable of giving birth to a male (Zakhar, the force of bestowal).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”

Comment: If a person feels bad, of course, he prays for the bad to go away so he would feel good.

My Response: We have discussed this issue many times. A person always prays for their well-being. The question is, what is good for him? This all depends on how a person sets his priorities.

Either it is good for me to be in an egoistic form in this world or to belong to the future world in an egoistic form or to have at least a little bit of an attitude toward the Creator that can be called non-egoistic. This is called Lo Lishma, and it is within this state that a fundamental transformation takes place.

You are always looking for ways to make the transition from the material world to the spiritual world, from acting for yourself to acting for the Creator’s sake, and this is correct. You wonder how to arrange this entrance so that it is not a contradiction, but a bridge, a straight tunnel from one to the other. This is impossible!

Until the Final Sea (Yam Suf) opens, there will be no passage. Therefore, a person leaves studying Kabbalah. There are some who are really miraculously given from above to withstand it.

There are a hundred people sitting here, and there are several hundred more in the outer groups. The rest are unable to handle it. How many thousands have passed through us? They are not ready yet, they have tried and left because to hold this point, to be connected with it, to try to live in it, is to constantly be in an inner divide, where you are zero in both experience and knowledge, in everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”

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Question: How can I check whether I have deviated from the right path?

Answer: Rabash writes that we must constantly examine whether I, my action, and the Creator are  aligned on a single line.

That is, one must clarify whether what I am doing right now is directed toward drawing closer to the Creator, whether I can already begin to clarify what “closer” means and what “the Creator” means.

But even if I cannot, it is still necessary simply not to forget that this is connected with the Creator, that I want to be in adhesion with Him. And when I actually feel this, then I will not feel any mental strain whatsoever. It is similar to how I feel cold or heat. How could I forget it? It is impossible because I feel it. Here, I do not need memory.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Severity of Teaching Idol Worshippers the Torah”